Tag: reflection
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The Seventy-two Return To Celebrate With Jesus
Story 161 – Last Journey To Jerusalem (By Luke) Many times in my life, I have listened to storytellers share the most wonderful of narratives. They have skillfully entertained attentive and bemused crowds with words of joy and happiness. Then, at the right moment, they have ended their story with a few simple words of wisdom…
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Jesus Commissions Seventy-two
Story 160 – Last Journey To Jerusalem (By Luke) As Jesus continued on his journey to Jerusalem, He appointed seventy-two disciples and sent them ahead of him in pairs to the villages and towns that he planned to visit. He told them not to carry a bag, money or sandals but where they were welcomed, stay, eat…
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Jesus Plans To Go To Jerusalem – Rejection By Samaritans
Story 159 – Last Journey To Jerusalem (By Luke) When the time approached for Jesus’ death and ascension to heaven, He started to plan His long journey to Jerusalem; it was in Jerusalem that these things would happen and He was not going to avoid His Father’s will. Instead, He “set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem”.…
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Parable Of The Unforgiving Servant
Story 158 – The Way To The Cross After Jesus said to Simon Peter, forgive your brother “not seven times but seventy-seven times”, He told this parable: The Kingdom of Heaven is like a King who, when settling his accounts, ordered a man along with his wife and children to be sold because they could not repay…
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Jesus On Reconciliation
Story 157 – The Way To The Cross The Apostle, Simon Peter, approached Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!” Jesus was saying that the number of times you…
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Jesus:- “Where Two or Three are Gathered Together”
Story 156 – The Way To The Cross Jesus said to his disciples, “If two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them”. Here, Jesus was asking his disciples to jointly…
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Jesus On Reproving One’s Brother
Story 155 – The Way To The Cross Had an argument recently and fallen out with someone, perhaps a workmate or a friend? You probably don’t need advice on how to restore peace, but this is what a friend suggested. Plan A: Think about what caused the argument and how it got out of control, then…
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Parable of the Lost Sheep by Jesus
Story 154 – The Way To The Cross Have you ever lost money, jewellery or something else of great material or sentimental value? Perhaps, it seemed irreplaceable at the time! Among a crowd gathering to hear Jesus preach, were some Pharisees. They noticed the presence of tax collectors and sinners among them so, they complained saying, “This…
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Jesus Warns Against Temptations
Story 153 – The Way To The Cross Who is most at risk of being misguided in the world? Jesus, while standing beside a little child, said to his disciples, “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone…
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Man Casting Out Demons In Jesus’ Name
Story 152 – The Way To The Cross How would you react if you were told that someone was secretly helping you to do your everyday work? Smile or get stressed! It didn’t bother Jesus. The disciples noticed someone casting our demons in His name and tried to stop him; he wasn’t one of them! When…